Please join us for a walkthrough and conversation in the gallery with curator Susanne Walther and art historian Gregory Williams, held in conjunction with Franz Erhard Walther: Who cannot wait will stumble.
This informal exchange will shed light on Walther’s life and work, with particular focus on the unrealized or rarely seen projects presented in the exhibition— through drawings, plans, models, and newly produced works. The discussion will last approximately 30 minutes, followed by an open Q&A.
A Conversation with Susanne Walther and Gregory Williams
Saturday, 26 April, 4pm
Peter Freeman, Inc.
140 Grand Street, New York
Susanne Walther is the founder and president of the Franz Erhard Walther Foundation. She studied fine art and philosophy in Rome, Hamburg, and Würzburg, and since 1997 has organized numerous exhibitions and publications on Walther’s work. In 2007, she established the Foundation and continues to oversee its projects and exhibitions. In 2022, she launched VILLA in Fulda, Germany––a collaboration between the Foundation and the city of Fulda––where she serves as artistic director. Recent curatorial projects include Lygia Clark and Franz Erhard Walther: Action as Sculpture (VILLA, 2023) and Walther’s 2024 retrospective at Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Germany.
Gregory Williams is associate professor of contemporary and modern art history at Boston University. He is the author of Permission to Laugh: Humor and Politics in Contemporary German Art (2012, University of Chicago Press), and co-editor of Labour in a Single Shot: Critical Perspectives on Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki’s Global Video Project (2022, Amsterdam University Press) and Humor in Global Contemporary Art (2024, Bloomsbury). His current book project, Practical Aesthetics: The Object of Postwar Art and Design in West Germany, explores new pedagogies of art and design in West Germany during the 1950s and 1960s.